... I/O Commentary on Real World Problems. James T McCoy is the flight line manager of the 41st Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU) at Peterson Air Force Base (PAF), California. McCoy’s is required to have any or all of his seven assigned aircraft ready to fly as scheduled. McCoy is responsible for ensuring there is enough qualified personnel, work schedules, training, supplies, vehicles, support equipment and performance reports to name a few. McCoy does not handle all these duties himself, as a Wage-supervisor 13, (WS-13) he has an equal WS-13 that works the other shift, five Wage-supervisors (WS-11), and 10 Wage-leader 12, (WL-12) that he can delegate duties to. On November 28, 2012, James T McCoy sat down with me, Gregory Lambert, and discussed some of the challenges and issues that arise in the AMU. Once, out in the open with the issues I asked McCoy what strategies he has used to address the challenges. After reviewing what we discussed I came up with some recommendations to help James T McCoy deal with situations as they may arise in the future (University of Phoenix, n.d.). Problems in the 41st AMU James T McCoy is a 27-year veteran of the United States Air Force (USAF), retired, and continues to work for the USAF as a civil servant for the past 10 years. Discussing some issues that arise in his workplace the number one problem is employees. Employees encompasses a big field of discussion, when asked for clarification, James said a few items coming to mind. Qualifications...
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...solution-tree.com for details. the journey continues solution-tree.com 800.733.6786 “After several months of research and dialogue with practitioners throughout the nation, it became apparent that the hype was real. PLCs . . . are being used by schools and districts of all sizes and demographics to make significant impacts on student achievement.” —Evaluating Professional Learning Communities: Final Report An APQC® Education Benchmarking Project Overview The Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement. These institutes give you and your team the knowledge and tools to implement this powerful process in your school or district. As you delve deep into the three big ideas of a PLC—focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and results orientation— you will gain specific, practical, and inspiring strategies for transforming your school or district into a place where all students learn at high levels. Why Attend 3 Big Ideas That Drive a PLC The Presentation Leading experts deliver keynote presentations and breakout sessions designed to develop your capacity for building a PLC. Explore the three big ideas essential to sustained school improvement and higher levels of learning for all....
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...Exploratory Essay Outline Introduction (Paragraph I): a. Is racism still alive? b. Over the past years my views on racism has changed. When I was younger, I didn’t notice the racism as much as I do now. Body Paragraph 2 a. Source I i. Why Conservatives should oppose Racial Profiling ii. Racial profiling oppresses the African American population iii. The justice system is tailored for white men, the minorities just have to assimilate Body Paragraph 3 a. Source 2 I. Maryland Restricts Racial Profiling in New Guidelines for Law Enforcement II. Maryland law requires law enforcement agencies to have policies prohibiting racial and ethnic profiling during traffic stops III. There are people with different viewpoints on if racial profiling still exists IV. ''Racial profiling continues despite the fact that it is against the law of the United States; it's against Maryland law,'' Body Paragraph 4 b. Source 3 V. Why Racism Still Flourishes VI. “our faltering efforts to deal with race in this country, a great deal of time is devoted to responding to symptoms rather than root causes. That may help explain why racism keeps repeating itself.” VII. Examples are pointed out; in colleges racism has occurred. VIII. “The United States has been treating evidence of racism, and not the causes, since the Civil War.” Body Paragraph 5, 6, 7, etc Conclusion * Clarify what you now think of your...
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...A Defense of Diversity Affirmative Action It is certain that there has been racial discrimination in the United States, and some minority groups are still disadvantaged. Affirmative action has striven to alleviate this problem, but it has met with objections. In the article, “A Defense of Diversity Affirmative Action,” the author James P. Sterba (2003) has entered the controversy, and holds that there should be more affirmative action. This paper argues that while Sterba has made some valid points, many of his points can be challenged, and his argument is narrowly focused on the sole issue of racial inequity and the sole solution of affirmative action in university admissions, with the result that it ignores many business ethics issues and broader social interests and solutions. Sterba has made some claims and then presented his recommendations. It is logical to first lay out the claims, and then the recommendations that flow from the claims. Sterba makes the claim that society in the United States is “far from being color-blind (racially just) or gender-free (sexually just)” (p. 217). He states that there is considerable discrimination in hiring. For example, among men who had participated in job training programs, the jobless rate for whites, light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks were 14.5%, 11.1% and 26.8% respectively (p. 218). Sterba also claims that universities do not voluntarily follow the policy of attempting to obtain a student body that reflects the ethnic...
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...ensures citizen's ability to fully participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or political repression and protect the freedom of classes of people and individuals from unwarranted infringement into those rights by governments, private organizations and other entities. Many men and women help made a huge impact in changing the world during the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. Many men and women help make a difference during the civil rights. There were many but some just stood out in particular. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. are famous Civil Right leaders, often considered to be some of the greatest. They believed that African Americans should get more political power. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement they were always known as the people that TOOK action with what was given. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement”. The black businesses in the neighborhoods suffered tremendously and also the convenient stores. Riots and protest were mainly in the black neighborhoods. In the last three decades, Congress has put in place a number of civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in educational programs...
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...Issues of family structure, gender roles, social status, and national heritage unfolded through the generations after immigration—and how for Catholic immigrants and their children, religion stood at the heart of those issues. (http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org) Ritual and prayer are integral parts of Catholic life, from the sacraments which mark the sacred milestones on life's journey to the smaller rituals of daily devotion. In the case of the Eucharist, these two overlap: the Eucharist is both the sacramental heart of Catholic life and, for many believers, a daily event. The Mass is usually celebrated in a church, but Catholics carry many other ritual actions of devotion and worship into the nooks and crannies of everyday life. (http://www.patheos.com) Throughout history tradition has made wars, especially with the Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox. “ Roman Catholics and Orthodox nuke it out, each claiming the other's tradition is wrong, while sola Scriptura advocates point them back to the Bible as the only hope for unity!”(http://www.bible.ca) Both Roman Catholics and Orthodox view the other churches tradition as invalid. We merely highlight the fact that, contrary to their claims, "church tradition" does not bring about uniform doctrine and interpretation of scripture. The first Roman Catholics to enter the American colonies settled in Maryland in 1634. They were under the control of the Vicar Apostolic of London, but the American Revolution made that arrangement...
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...Civil Rights Diary There is so much to know about African Americans, who were in the civil rights movement, in the 1960s. These African Americans risk so much just do what they believed in. James Meredith was one of those people who stood his ground and made a difference in the world. It was an opportunity that not so many people have taken because of the fear of what could have happened. The civil rights movement changed American lives today, so that we as African Americans had the chance to experience what these powerful men did not. I remember when James Meredith enrolled to our school at the University of Mississippi. I was amazed he went to those lengths to get into this school with all whites. He did not care about what he was getting himself into by going to an all-white school. I can only imagine what he went through when trying to get accepted and I am here to tell you all about it because I do not know if I would’ve been strong enough to go through the discrimination, court cases, and worse. I can say that I commend him for becoming the first black student to attend University of Mississippi. I remember hearing about a black student applying to attend our school, then finding out that he was denied admission. This only made him want to come more, so he took it court. James legal defense fund of the NAACP headed an eighteen month court battle which he won, but it opposed twice by Governor Ross Barnett. The governor incited a quote from Mississippians that a white...
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...Famous Thinkers Paper We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday, deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome someday. These legendary words have been the foundation for people of color since the long nights of captivity, slavery. Several prominent activists have made immense strides in making those words a reality. Such individuals like James H. Cone and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. James H. Cone, an advocate affectionately known for black liberation theology, a theology grounded in the experience of African Americans, and related to other Christian liberation theologies. James H. Cone approach provided a realistic snap shot of a new way to articulate the distinctiveness of theology in the Black Church. Frustrated and outraged at the White Church of playing a significant role in the oppression and racism of black people. Cone believed that the Black Church is a powerful force [in his life] and did not do enough in regard to racism among African Americans. Cone exploited scriptures, slave spirituals, blues, and other prominent African American thinkers such as David Walker, Henry McNeal Turner, and W.E.B. DuBois to help shape his theology. Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King also influenced his theology. Cone formulates a theology of liberation from within the context of the Black experience of oppression, interpreting the central kernel of the Gospels as Jesus' identification with the poor, oppressed, and...
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...The first artist I will be talking about is James Brown. James Brown was born May 3rd in 1933 in the state of South Carolina. He was moved to Georgia at age four to live with his aunt after his parents split up (James Brown Biography). Brown grew up in great poverty and worked any job he could get to earn a penny. After getting kicked out of school, he turned to more odd end jobs and crime. James eventually got thrown into jail for three years after stealing a car at the age of 16 (James Brown Biography). This looked like a bad thing, but it opened the gateway to his music career. While in jail, he led a gospel choir and formed a fruitful, musical friendship with Bobby Byrd (James Brown Biography). After leaving jail, in 1955, Byrd asked...
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...Bathrooms are a place where an individual uses everyday with little to no thought. As for people who don't identify by gender lies a whole world of complications. Transgender people get harassed and bullied everyday because they use the "wrong" bathroom but which bathroom is exactly the "right" one? In a recent poll, 59 percent of Americans believe that transgender individuals should use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they were assigned at birth, while 26 percent are comfortable with self-determination when it comes to choosing which bathroom to use. Some people believe that if you are born a girl but identity as a man, you should still use the room based on your genitalia. Others believe if you identify as a man, you should use the men's room. Either way, someone in either bathroom is upset. Stereotypes from the past as well as what genitals people are born with are major contributors to the labeling of bathrooms. This presents a problem in today’s society where gender and sex is no longer the same thing. This is where the controversy lies. Until not too long ago, the racial separation of bathrooms was an important civil rights issue in the United States. Since there were unlikely to be four separate bathrooms, only white women and men could depend on having someplace to pee when traveling (Cooper and Ruth, 1999, Pages 12-13). People of other races had no where to use a restroom and were seen as wrong if they were to ever use a whites only bathroom. Twenty years...
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...“right” in the actions done by the pilots. However, we should not limit the word “ethics” to doing the right thing only. Ethics stands also about promoting the proper piloting philosophy to people around us, for example to other pilots. Ethical dilemmas always appear in the aviation. Sometimes people have to solve them directly during the flight, but sometimes people may be indirectly concerned even while observing ethical misbehavior from the distance. It was said by Hansen and Oster that the attendance of white men in crucial aviation professions is the heritage of both obvious discrimination in hire and the internal culture that from the start gave the strong emphasis on the masculine nature of the aviation itself (James E. Sulton, 2008). If we take the history of aviation, we will see that everything began with Orville and Wilbur in the year 1910 when they were in the flying school in Montgomery. Those brothers developed the touring company and they needed pilots to conduct flying exhibitions and lessons what might advertise sales. It is obvious that at that time there were lees then ten qualified to the full extend pilots in the whole world and most of them were white men (Hoppe, 2011). The first detect of diversity was the appearing of women in the aviation. Although all women lived through huge challenges, women of color were denied adoption into flight-training programs altogether and knocked off the opportunities to fly. Finally, it happened in 1910 when Baroness...
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...created by society through Discrimination in all of its forms. Discrimination is an unjust act of hate and prejudice towards another group of people, however art can be used as a means to fight against it, the movie The Interrupters shows how someone can break through the barriers of discrimination and bring light to a dark situation. Discrimination is a negative part of life everyone has experienced to different extremes, everyone has a different way to fight back, some people chose to use art. In the essay “ From the Souls of Black Folk: Of our Spiritual Strivings” by W. E. Du Bois, he talks in depth about the struggle of African American Life directly following the Emancipation proclamation. Du Bois writes in great detail about the state of mind known as the Double Consciousness. He states “ … the negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American World, a world in which yields him no true -self consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world (Du Bois 132). “ Du Bois is stating that the way an African American is viewed during this time period is different than the way he sees himself. He feels like he is split into two, his American side and his African side, both cultures pulling at him but not wanting to separate from either. (132). The Double Consciousness is a concept that is still felt in society. The double Consciousness relates to any form of Discrimination not only racial. Eli Claire...
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...Rights Movement, (w-w) there were other famous leaders. (2) In 1954-1968, people changed the course of history everywhere because (BC) of some incredible heroes. (3) Slowly (LY), the heroes effort to stop segregation payed off. (CL) When they protested, they only believed in harmless and nonviolent (SV) acts. The struggle for social justice killed some heroes. The Civil Rights was a fight that lasted horrible decades. (1) Daisy Bates, Jackie Robinson, and James Forman all were leaders and activists in our history. (1) Daisy Bates was a passionate (QA) woman, who wrote and published articles about recent events of discrimination in her local area. Bates reported the whole inspirational story start to end. (6) When (CL) she was born on November 11, 1914, she knew she was sent to this world for a reason. The most impacting (SV) thing she has ever willingly (LY) done was assisting the Little Rock 9 into an all white school. She was an important player in the Aaron v. Cooper case where African American children sued a Little Rock school for not allowing them to attend. This event became national news and set the stage for...
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...Five Miles Away, A World Apart by James E. Ryan The public school system in the United States of America has undergone many transformational policy changes since its inception in the 17th century. These policy changes have largely been proportionate to the epidemic that is segregation. Segregation in the public schools of the United States has been the focus of many political agendas. Politicians, activists, scholars, and citizens have fought long and hard to create an equal public education for each and every child regardless of race, religion, or creed. To better understand the history and timeline of segregation within the US public school system, we need not look much further than James E. Ryan’s book, Five Miles Away A World Apart, One City, Two Schools, And The Story Of Educational Opportunity In Modern America. Mr. Ryan gives an immensely detailed portrayal of the educational divide in this country by using two high schools in the state of Virginia. These schools, Freeman and Tee-Jay, located a mere 5 miles apart, are representative of the educational segregation plaguing our schools. On the one hand we have Freeman High School, which is almost 80 percent white and Tee-Jay High School, which is about 80% black. It is clear to see that Ryan chooses these two schools, as they represent the great divide between urban and suburban public schools throughout our nation. Five Miles Away, A World Apart does a great job informing us on all of the policies...
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...is usually due to the person’s race, religion, creed or sexual preference. Although hate crimes in a new category of punishable crime, it has been around for a while in the United States. Many members of the LGBT community make up the majority of the crimes that are the most underreported. Laws against Hate Crimes Laws against hate crimes and discrimination were created because members within this community are being discriminated against daily and at alarming rates. Transgender people are fighting against discrimination at work, schools, housing and public places, to include the ability to use the appropriate restrooms. Contrary to what is seen on television, such as Orange is the New Black, within prison/jails populations, most transgendered people are not housed with the sex they identify with. In recent news, a transgendered woman, Vicky Thomas, was found hanging in her cell. Vicky had reported being harassed by the male prisoners because of the way she dresses and her overall appearance. To add insult to this, she was housed in a unit that holds those with sexually-based offenses (Baker and Gye, 2015). Matthew Sheppard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 This act was implanted by President Barak Obama because these victims both fell into one of the specified categories or...
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